xubuntu 8.10 usb install

This tutorial is based on information from Andreas Bucher (http://www.it-academy.cc/article/1530/L ... ieren.html) and petr-kubanek (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubunt ... eInstaller).

Needed:

- USB-stick ~1GB
- Running Linux OS
- Internet connection


Steps:

1. Download xubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso (Intrepid Ibex) from http://www.xubuntu.org.

2. Download respective (version dependend) initrd.gz and vmlinuz from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ ... /hd-media/

3. Open a shell, become root and type:

Code:

fdisk -l

to identify your flash drive. Here we assume it is /dev/sda and go on with:

Code:

apt-get install syslinux mtools mbr
umount /dev/sda
cfdisk /dev/sda

create a new partition, make it primary, make it bootable, choose type FAT16 and finally write partition table; then go on with:

Code:

mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1
mkdir -p /media/flash
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/flash
syslinux -s /dev/sda1
mkdir -p /media/iso
mount -o loop xubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/iso
cp -r /media/iso/isolinux/* /media/flash
mv /media/flash/isolinux.cfg /media/flash/syslinux.cfg
mkdir -p /media/flash/install
cp vmlinuz /media/flash/install
cp initrd.gz /media/flash/install
cp xubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/flash
install-mbr /dev/sda
umount /media/flash

Note to use the correct paths for xubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso and vmlinuz and initrd.gz

To enable WLAN type

Code:

apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

after the installation.

More information can be found at http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Baustelle/Ac ... einrichten

Cheers,
Sebastian